Arkansas County Church and Cemetery Records
See Also Research In State Church & Cemetery Records - Church records rank among the most promising of genealogical records available. Indeed, for periods before the advent of civil registration of vital statistics (a very late development in many American states) , church records rank as the best available sources for information on specific vital events: birth, marriage, and death. They are also among the most under-used major records in American genealogy. Part of the reason lies in the number of denominations-there are hundreds of them. Identifying and locating the records of these various churches makes even professional genealogists hesitate......
Some church records for Arkansas churches are available at the Arkansas History Commission. These include published church histories, church records, newspapers, and manuscript collections.
Baptist - Arkansas Baptist State Convention Collection, Ouachita Baptist University, Riley Library, 410 Ouachita, Arkadelphia, Arkansas 71923.
Lutheran- Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church, 3558 South Jefferson Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63103.
Roman Catholic - Chancery Office, St. John's Seminary, North Tyler and I Streets, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201.
Episcopal- The Bishop's Office, 509 Scott Street, Little Rock, Arkansas 72201.
Methodist- North Arkansas Conference Depository, Hendrix College, Olin C. Bailey Library, Washington and Front Streets, Conway, Arkansas 72032; and Little Rock Conference Depository, Methodist Headquarters Building, 1723 Broadway, Little Rock, Arkansas 72204
Presbyterian - Arkansas College Library, Batesville, Arkansas 72501.
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Cemeteries - Local county genealogical and historical organizations have copied, cataloged, and published records of local cemeteries. Most of these are in the collection at the Arkansas History Commission; many are in the DAR Library. Most of those in the DAR collection have been microfilmed by the FHL.
The Arkansas Family Historian, a publication of the Arkansas Genealogical Society, publishes transcriptions of gravestones from cemeteries as do many local and regional periodicals. No statewide index to cemetery records exists.
Cemetery records and gravestone inscriptions are a rich source of information for family historians. Cemetery and other sources of information associated with death include:
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